[...] The rise of microblogs (Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, Rakawa.net, Yammer, ect.) has caused people to think in 140 characters or less. With so much to share it’s difficult to write something of substance that also provides a benefit to your followers. That is if you don’t incorporate the social media strategy of short URL redirection. [...]

Although URL shortening services are great for saving space, they do pose a problem as you don’t know where that URL takes you.

With an increasing number of people using short links to deceive people into clicking on malicious links http://www.expandmyurl.com allows you to preview where your short link goes to stop you getting a nasty surprise when you get there.

Here’s another offering in the short URL scene: Twitt.at (http://twitt.at) – A Simple short URL service for use with Twitter.
twitt.at — Twitter.com’s character limit makes it imposible to post a long URL or link in your Tweets. That’s where http://twitt.at comes in. Twitt.at will take a long URL and turn it into a tiny one, so as not to use up the Twiter character limit! Twitt.at is quick, simple and free and has no random ‘gimmicks’ – just get what you need: a shorter URL!

URL shortener that let’s you create custom links (shortened urls) with the choice of domain and your very own subdomain.

Once signed up, you will have access to an admin panel for your domain and subdomain, the admin panel contains all shortened URLs created with your own subdomain and the times they’ve been hit, with the option to delete them.

I hate looong long URL. I believe in simple is beauty. As you see, I setup my blog without prefix “www” was due to this reason. The naked domain URL make me easier to remember by you all.
Somehow, not all people use short domain URL. Plus t…

Here is another offering: http://tiny.by . Get a custom short URL like “tiny.by/yourname”. Advanced features like URL password protection, visitor counter, masked redirection (hide the destination URL). You can also shorten up to 4 URLs at once.